Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Ash Wednesday
Blessed Ildephonse Cardinal Schuster (1880-1954), monk, abbot, and finally Archbishop of Milan, was one of the greatest figures in the Benedictine Order in modern times,...
The Living Icons in the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict
Christo Omnino Nihil Praeponant: To Prefer Nothing to Christ Each Person is an Image of Christ Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is...
The Deifying Light and Mary, the Mount of God
The Deifying Light Selection of the Rule of St. Benedict for January 2, May 3, September 2 Let us arise, therefore, at long last, at...
Divine Mercy and the Monastic Vocation
Disclaimer: The series of letters entitled “Correspondence on the Monastic Vocation”, while based on the real questions of a number of men in various places...
Make known thy way unto the Lord (VII:9)
2 Feb. 3 June. 3 Oct. The fifth degree of humility is, not to hide from one’s Abbot any of the evil thoughts that beset...